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A History of the County of Oxford
… BOROUGH TO 1886.When New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The … and bailiffs forfeited 5 of felons' goods for allowing an escape. 93 In Woodstock, as elsewhere, the ruling group … Kent. 6 In 1625 an alleged seditious speech in a Woodstock alehouse was referred to the Oxford sessions and brought to …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY: Agriculture. In 1086 there was no demesne land in either Woolaston manor … and in 1293 two casks and eight quarters of apples. 7 An orchard belonging to the vicarage was recorded in 1261. 8 … Woolaston Wood. 38 For a short time in 1660 the wood was committed to the care of the Commissioners of Dean Forest in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… midway between Lydney and Chepstow. Roughly rectangular in shape, it rises from the River Severn to the high ground … the steep valley of the River Wye opposite Tintern Abbey. In 1882 the detached portion of the parish at Madgett, … Gloucester to Chepstow, but north of the road it takes an erratic course unrelated to topographical features. It is …
A History of the County of Somerset
… of Bridgwater. The ancient parish was almost rectangular in shape measuring 3 km. from north to south and 2.5 km. from … the village across field boundaries, seems to have been an addition to the ancient road pattern. 15 POPULATION The … 1595 William Edwards sold wine and beer, probably at the alehouse recorded in 1605. 17 A tippler and another …
The Environs of London
… Woolwich WOOLWICH. Name. THIS place in old charters is called Hulviz, Wolwiche, Wollewic, &c. I … Bowater Esq., the present proprietor. Manor of Jeffrys. An estate in this parish, called the Manor of Jeffrys, was, … an alms-house in Woolwich for five poor widows, and committed the care of it to the Goldsmiths' Company 48. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it is the capital, … is enumerated by Nennius under the name of Caer Guorangon in his catalogue of cities belonging to the Britons, by whom, … of Roman pottery-works have been met with; of all which, an interesting description is given by Mr. Jabez Allies in …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… that money shulde be taxed upon certaine inhabitantes in sondry parishes, within this countie, towardes the … to deliver the same, to youre suppliant Henry Mason (an officer, by youre apointment for receipt thereof and the … Bayton aleseller, for sufferinge of abuses and disorders committed in his howse, contrary to the statute in that case …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Cotage is erected within the parishe of Ridmarley Dabitott in the countie aforesaid, by the permission and allowance of … beere, which she selleth and uttereth not above half an ale quart [for...?] a peny, which is contrary to the lawes … that whereas [John?] Kempster and Thomas Byrde two alehouse keepers [illegible] the towne of Bayton doe nott …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… That whereas your worships poore peticioner hath served in Ireland in the late Queene Elizabeths tyme, in which … binde the now keeper Mistress Moore in a 100 pound to sell an ale quarte of beare for a penie, from that time forwarde … that wheras one Arthure Addams of Yardley, for divers misdemeanours and outrages, was most worthelie by Sir Richard …